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purple clients problem

list Henrik Størner
Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:40:02 +0100
Message-Id: <user-89aecaba5d5e@xymon.invalid>

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 02:08:32PM +0100, Longina Przybyszewska wrote:
Please try setting BBGHOSTS to "2" in hobbitserver.cfg. Restart Hobbit,
and after 10 minutes check the "hobbitd" column on the Hobbit server.
Are there any hosts listed there ?
Yes, all my missig clients are listed as ghost + 2 clients which are at both places (as ghosts and showing green dimonds)+ 1 client that just turned to purple.

in ghosts file IP numbers are translated to nonqualified names - if compared with bb-hosts:

in bb-hosts:
----
130.225.128.126   sieglinde.imada.sdu.dk
130.225.128.167   zaira.imada.sdu.dk

----
in ghosts:
130.225.128.126 reported host sieglinde
130.225.128.167 reported host zaira
The hostname you see in the "ghosts" list is the hostname the the
clients use when they report data. This *must* match the one found
in the bb-hosts file, or Hobbit will simply discard the client message
because it doesn't know which host it belongs to.

So you can either change your clients to use the "--hostname" option (e.g. use "--hostname=sieglinde.imada.sdu.dk" when calling
runclient.sh), or add "CLIENT:sieglinde" to the entries in the bb-hosts file.


Regards,
Henrik